Young artist Angshuman’s painting “The Somnambulist” mysteriously wins first prize, even though he never submitted the original. Is it a twist of reality or just an illusion?
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Angshuman Roy
In the final year of high school, a group of students embarks on creating a short film for a competition. Despite facing numerous obstacles and challenges that test their teamwork and unity, the group learns valuable lessons in persistence and collaboration. As tensions rise and doubts creep in, one member reminds them that struggles are part of the journey. Together, they push forward, determined to finish what they started. This film, made as a keepsake for their graduation, captures not only the struggles they faced but the triumph of overcoming them.
Passingness is a haunting exploration of identity, memory, and the fragile edge of reality. As the narrative unfolds through emotionally charged performances and a tense, introspective atmosphere, the audience is drawn into a fragile space between being and disappearing. A haunting meditation on identity, loneliness, and the terror of not being seen. Driven by intense, intimate performances, the story unfolds in layers of psychological tension, revealing inner scars, blurred truths, and the quiet terror of not knowing who you are or if you ever were.
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Wasteland is a five-part anthology film that deals with isolation, mental illness, and the subjectivity of reality. Each of the five parts can be watched individually, but when viewed in sequence, each story brings out a more interesting and distinct context to its respective pieces.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Plagued by doubt, a man’s reality fractures when his reflection shifts into a darker presence that steps into his world.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Why won't the light turn off?
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Upon realizing there's not much time left, a teenager stuck in their bedroom, with only a window to the outside world, reflects on their life and tries to find a way out of their prison.
Under the heavy shadow of Cambodia’s past, two young women’s unbreakable bond is tested when one disappears into a world of exploitation, forcing the other to confront the depths of loyalty and the price of redemption.
Amidst a psychotic episode, a young man breaks into a house and is confronted by the homeowner, their underlying connection unbeknownst to both of them.
The reclusive and over-analyzing artist Arvid Rikh must find inspiration and overcome his constant disorganized, abstract and self-critical thoughts in order to create a masterpiece for his first major exhibition.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet.
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.